COMPTNG 130 · PIC 130Cryptography
Program in Computing · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Design and analysis of cryptosystems for confidentiality and authentication. Classical cryptosystems and their security, modern private-key cryptosystems and applications, public-key cryptography and applications; generating prime numbers, factoring integers, discrete logarithms, digital signatures, perfect secrecy.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: course 10B, Mathematics 115A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
COMPTNG 130
- COMPTNG 10BIntermediate Programming
- COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- MATH 115ALinear Algebra
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
2 direct requisites. Showing 8 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.